Sunday, May 14, 2017
Visitors observing the United States Senate in session from the chamber galleries are instructed to refrain from applauding, booing or - perhaps most crucial - laughing at their public serva…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18PMSaturday, May 13, 2017
In the late-night hours of June, 14, 1994, when hockey's New York Rangers won their first Stanley Cup championship in 54 years, there were fans visiting the gravesites of loved ones, armed w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:33PMThursday, May 11, 2017
As it pertains to the 2016 presidential election, the title HER OPPONANT doesn't necessarily refer to Donald Trump. As the first woman to top the ticket of one of America's major political …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
The best thing about Classic Stage Company's small-scale, extensively trimmed production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's extraordinarily-written 1976 musical, PACIFIC OVERTURES, is a …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Sixty years ago, Joseph Papp packed a truck with a small troupe of actors, some modest props and the firm belief that the plays of William Shakespeare belonged to everyone, and traveled thro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
After producer Fred Hamlin christened Columbus Circle's Majestic Theatre with a spectacular musical extravaganza based on L. Frank Baum's 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' The show had nothing to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:31AMMonday, May 1, 2017
In 1957, Meredith Willson wagered he could get Broadway audiences to cheer for THE MUSIC MAN's serial swindler who cheats nice people out of their hard-earned money and harasses the leading …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18AMSaturday, April 29, 2017
When a classic play from the past is revived, there's always the temptation to point out its relevance to today, or at least to present it through a contemporary lens. In some ways, that's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06AMThursday, April 27, 2017
As they sit in darkness, the first thing the audience hears is the sound of distant explosions. They come with an erratic frequency, edging frighteningly closer with each blast. But gradua…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48PMLong before websites like Friendster Remember Friendster increased the awareness of how few people it takes for one's social network to spread worldwide, John Guare's smart and funny 1990 en…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
No, that's not some forgotten Golden Age musical floating effervescently across the Broadhurst stage, but ANASTASIA sure has the old-fashioned romantic feel of one. The story of a young wom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMMonday, April 24, 2017
With two supporting actor Tony Awards under his belt, the versatile and immensely talented Christian Borle finally spent an opening night as a Broadway leading man earlier this season, playi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:54PMSunday, April 23, 2017
Yes, yes, we all know Bette Midler is the above the title attraction and her presence is the reason the latest Broadway revival of HELLO, DOLLY is the season's hottest new ticket. And she d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMWednesday, April 19, 2017
Passion, as it applies to the need to create and communicate through artistic endeavors, is a word that can be overused. Certainly countless numbers derive immense pleasure from their partic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMMonday, April 17, 2017
From ABIE'S IRISH ROSE to LA CAGE AUX FOLLES and beyond, the conflicts that occur when future in-laws meet for the first time have been a traditional source of comedy for both stage and scre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMFriday, April 14, 2017
When J.T. Rogers' fascinating play about the power and beauty of human interaction and diplomacy, OSLO, premiered Off-Broadway this past July at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, it w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
I'm old enough to be your ancestor, the 61-year-old gentleman scoffs to his 28-year-old overnight guest who, after meeting on a dating site called Gaydar, suggests that something of permanen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
A great difference between the Broadway theatre of today and that of the 1950s, the decade when William Inge emerged as an important American playwright, is that the public couldn't see the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02AMFriday, April 7, 2017
The recently completed Off-Broadway run of Penelope Skinner's fictional dramatic comedy LINDA embraced the efforts of a 55-year-old feminist of the cosmetics industry who fought to have her …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PMThursday, April 6, 2017
Noel Coward was 39 years old when he played the lead role of Garry Essendine, a famous actor fearing for the future of his career as he enters middle age, in the premiere production of his r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Bursting with joy isn't exactly a phrase commonly used to describe the exceptional directorial work of Pam MacKinnon. The woman who guided the premiere of Bruce Norris' tensely comic CLYBOU…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMMonday, April 3, 2017
All the context you'll need to deal with at the Lyceum's latest offering, Britain's Mischief Theatre import, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, is right there in the title. Forgoing pesky details li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
The town council of Gander, Newfoundland has unanimously voted against an application to clear land adjacent to the community's historic airport for the construction of a Trump Hotel and Cas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
It's no secret to theatregoer's that the frenetically paced, multi-character solo plays by Obie-winner John Leguizamo have provided far more insight into Latin-American history and culture t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48AMMonday, March 27, 2017
After her breakout Off-Broadway production of INTIMATE APPAREL and a Pulitzer Prize for her brutal depiction of rape as a weapon of war in RUINED, Lynn Nottage has been well established as o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36AMSunday, March 26, 2017
The authors who wrote the books for even the most successful Broadway musical comedies of the 1920s and 30s often get a bum rap for the flimsiness of their plots and the nonsensical nature o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMFriday, March 24, 2017
The helicopter is real this time, as is the Asian heritage of the leading man, as Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil's MISS SAIGON lands at the Broadway Theatre once more. Laurence C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
As patrons enter the Mitzi Newhouse for Sarah Ruhl's newest clever and quirky comedy, HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE, they're greeted by set designer David Zinn's rendering of a smart and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMSunday, March 19, 2017
Who is she Where did she come from These are questions likely to pass through the minds of Off-Broadway's regular attendees while witnessing Jo Lampert's stellar performance as the title cha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMFriday, March 17, 2017
By the time Arthur Miller's THE PRICE hit town in 1968, the playwright had already established himself during the 1940s and 50s as one of America's greatest dramatists with classics such as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
At the beginning of The Debate Society's premiere production of THE LIGHT YEARS written by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, developed and directed by Oliver Butler we're told that Arcturus, the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03AM 
